In the infographics and tables below, you can definitely tell when things went really wrong, when the pain in my feet got to the point where every footfall felt like I was mashing my toes into the pavement and breaking the tarsals, metatarsals, and phalanges over and over and over and over again. It […]
I was better. I am better. But I’m now feeling worse than I was feeling. Not worse than I was a week ago but worse than I was yesterday or the day before. My leg is mostly okay but there’s a pain in my back, a knot. I think it’s partially injury related and partially […]
I booked a half day tour to the DMZ. The full day tour wasn’t available because in the second half of that tour you get to go to the Joint Security Area. This is where the North and South meet, a line of demarcation in the middle of the DMZ, a large building where leaders […]
Today, I feast. I really shouldn’t given a variety of issues, but when in Seoul, one should partake of Seoul Food. I’m saving some macro sightseeing for the pre-paid half-day excursion I booked — more on that tomorrow when I get back from it — but that meant today was a majorly low-key day. My […]
I am a double jackass. I am a first class jackass as it was only stubbornness that had me run today in Seoul. And I am a second class jackass as I was stupidly arrogant and foolish for running in Seoul today. Things went a bit awry as GoogleMaps said the 271 bus I needed […]
There’s a scene in Die Hard I keep replaying in my head. Terrorists have taken over an LA high rise and the police have dispatched a heavily armed RV to take the building back. But the terrorists are prepared and fire rockets at the vehicle. Bruce Willis as rogue cop John McClane is 30 stories […]
It just doesn’t matter. And while I’m conflating two movies, Casablanca and Meatballs, the truth is undeniable. I can be in pain at home doing nothing or I can go to Seoul and be in pain and probably be unable to do anything. It’s only a change in longitude, not attitude. So I’m going to […]
It’s gotten so bad that I almost started this post with the line: “Webster’s Dictionary defines ‘threshold’ as, amongst other definitions, ‘the point at which a physiological or psychological effect begins to be produced.’” But I haven’t quite hit that point yet. A number of personal thresholds are being crossed by about me at the […]
Damn you, Jim Morrison. At the moment, all I can hear is your velvet lounge lizard voice emerging through the polyphonic haze, warning me as a friend that “this is the end….” I used that track on a charity fundraising video when I was approaching my 50th state way back in 2012… but this is […]
The Expo Yesterday – a shot at goofinees: Me, Katie, Eileen, and Ed. *** Today is a tough day. I’m proud of my friends who are headed out into a chilly morning for a 26.2 mile tour of the DC area… or because this is a Rock N Roll event, a 13.1 mile tour with […]